Statistics for 2023

So it seems that the last time I did an annual post like this one was Statistics For 2015.

In examining these trends, back in 2013 I wrote:

I’ve been wondering all year why I have seen a steady increase in traffic up until 2012, but then a steady decrease in traffic throughout 2012.  I think one of the reasons may be due to the fact that I simply haven’t been posting as much original content as I used to (time being shorter than what it normally has been I suppose).  I also wondering if simply the increased number of bloggers talking about K-12 online learning has had an effect.  Finally, over the past two years I have been more honest and blunt about the ideological undercurrents that we see in K-12 online learning – at least in the United States and with the main professional associations – and I wonder if people have stopped reading for that reason.

This is likely still a reasonable explanation.  I suspect that after almost 24 years of posting blog entries that blogging just isn’t the medium that it used to me, and that’s probably the biggest reason.  I know personally I have considered giving this up altogether.  But I also know the number of times I recall reading something and go searching through my archives trying to find the items – so at this stage it is as much a personal repository of things for myself than it is for an external audience.  Like I know I’ve found a number of news items/articles from years ago where they are no longer available on the media organization’s website, but I still have a verbatim version posted here on my blog.

If you look at the top twenty entries for 2023 based on traffic, it is another interesting tale:

1. From Sphere of Concern to Sphere of Control
2. Questions About The School Of Tomorrow
3. Updated Tables: Digest of Education Statistics 2021
4. New Release: What Works Clearinghouse Procedures and Standards Handbook, Version 5.0
5. ** Tell Your Senators: Do Not Support More Charter School Program Waste and Fraud
6. The History Of K-12 Online Education???
7. ** EBSCO Alerts
8. Review – Frog Dissection
9. FLVS now offers ACT/SAT prep!
10. ** Guest Blog Entry: ADA Title II Regs… IMPORTANT!
11. ** Online by Choice: Design Options for Flexible K-12 Learning – Pre-Sale Discount
12. ** Virtual Schooling In The News
13. 10 Education Myths Debunked: Infographic
14. Presentation: Visible Learning, Tomorrow’s Schools, The Mindsets That Make The Difference In Education – John Hattie
15. ** Be a Speaker at FETC 2024! Apply NOW!
16. Blended Learning vs. Technology-Rich Instruction
17. 5 Minutes On K-12 Online Learning With…
18. Have an Early Learner? Join VPK!
19. ** Call for Short Chapters: PreK-12 EdTech Research
20. ** Virtual Schooling In The News

So eight of these 20 entries were written in 2023 – indicated with ** above.  In fact, if you look at when the entries were posted:

2010	3
2011	1
2016	1
2018	1
2020	3
2022	3
2023	8

Interestingly, the most popular items tended to be recent, but there were still a number of items from 2010-11 that had staying power.

Anyway, the top 15 referrers for 2023 included:

1. Search Engines
   • Google Search
   • Bing
   • Yahoo Search
   • duckduckgo.com
   • Yandex
   • live.com
   • Baidu
   • AOL
2. WordPress.com Reader
3. Twitter
4. linkedin.com
5. app.cision.com
6. app.meltwater.com
7. WordPress Android App
8. Facebook
9. rmrose.blogspot.com
10. mail.google.com
11. editors.s360.co
12. app.criticalmention.com
13. michaelbarbour.com
14. app.talkwalker.com
15. scholar.google.com

As with previous years, search engines accounted for the vast majority of referrals (i.e., almost 4,200 views, with the next one – WordPress.com Reader – only accounting for approximately 2,800 referrals).  It is interesting to note since most of the social media tools have stopped allowing the APIs that would automatically post entries both Twitter and Facebook have decreased significantly, while LinkedIn (which still has the connection) has stayed about the same.

Well, I think that’s about it for another year… I guess the next bit of unpacking this space will happen on my next blogversary! Until then…